Listed 20 sub titles with search on: Biographies for wider area of: "CHANIA Prefecture CRETE" .
CHERSONISSOS (Ancient city) INACHORI
Engineer, Land surveyor, chartographer. Son of Zoilos. Engineer of Alexander΄s
Army accompanied him to his campaigh to Asia. He is mentioned by Diogenis Laertios
as a "surveyor of the lands conquered by Alexander". Work He measured
daily, as a "day - measeurer and stepper", the put - back itineraries
by the army and prepared a "route diagram" showing the marching way
and the surroundings.
On a scripture found at Olympia is written : "Philonides, son
of Zoilos,Chersonesian Cretan, King Alexander΄s day - measurer and stepper of
Asia to Olympian Zeus dedicated".
Ancient writers tell the stories of athletes who worked at other jobs and did not spend all their time in training. For example, one of Alexander the Great's couriers, Philonides, who was from Chersonesus in Crete, once won the pentathlon, which included discus, javelin, long jump, and wrestling competitions as well as running. However, just as in the modern Olympics, an ancient athlete needed mental dedication, top conditioning, and outstanding athletic ability in order to make the cut.
MAZA (Village) KRYONERIDA
Ioannis Pagomenos was the most hard-working, diverse, and pleasant
of the known Cretan painters and he is buried under the thirteen century Byzantine
church of Agios Nikolaos, in the middle of the village of Maza. For more than
30 years, between 1314 and 1347 he painted churches by himself. These churches
include Agios Georgios in Komitades, Sfakia (1314), Agios Nikolaos in Moni, Selino
(1315), the Panagia in Alikambos, Apokoronas (1316), Agios Georgios, Anidri, Selino
(1323), Agios Nikolaos, Maza, Apokoronas (1326), Michael Archangelos, Kavalariana
near Kandanos, Selino (1328), the Panagia of Beilitika near Kakodiki, Selino (1332)
and the Panagia, Skafidia near Prodromi, Selino (1347).
This extract is cited Apr 2003 from the Crete TOURnet URL below, which contains image.
KYDONIA (Ancient city) CHANIA
Aristocles of Cydonia was one of the most ancient sculptors; and though his age could not be clearly fixed, it was certain that he flourished before Zancle was called Messene (Paus. v. 25.6), that is, before 494 B. C.
The school of Phidias had rivals in the naturalistic school which followed Myron, including his son, Lycius, and Cresilas of Cydonia
Kresilas of Kydonia in Crete (not necessarily identical with the "Ctesilaus" who "made a Doryphoros and a wounded Amazon": Pliny in N.H. 34.75) is often given the Sciarra type, though his style is only known from the Perikles portrait (Ch. 6.3) if the copies we have indeed reproduce the statue noted by Pliny, N.H. 34.74 and Pausanias (1.28.2 -- but omitting the sculptor). "Cydon" probably repeats Kresilas's own ethnic, a slip which may have eliminated another name (Strongylion, whose Amazon is praised by Pliny in N.H. 34.82?); while Phradmon of Argos is known for three other works, all lost.
This extract is from: Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works. Cited Oct 2003 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains extracts from the ancient literature, bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
TARRA (Ancient city) SFAKIA
Lucillus (Loukillos) of Tarrha, in Crete, wrote a work on the city of Thessalonica (Steph. Byz. s. v. Phessalonike), a commentary on the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, and a collection of Proverbs, which, with those of Didymus of Alexandria, appear to have been the source of most of the later collections of the kind. Thus Zenobius expressly states that he collected his proverbs from Lucillus and Didymus. The proverbs of Lucillus are also quoted by Tzetzes (Chil. viii. 149), by Apostolius, and by Stephanus (s. v. Tarra, reading Loukillos for Loukios, comp. s. v. Kalarna)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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